Who wants to talk about blindness? Not very many people and I can’t say that I blame anyone particularly. As someone who has worn glasses all my consci0us life blindness is a touch too close to my lived experience for me to be really happy talking about it. But, sometimes it comes up and talking […]
You don’t have to be blind
No one chooses to be blind. Well there was that one character in a middling-bad science fiction book who intentionally blinded himself to concentrate on science but a) he’s fictional; and, b) that’s dumb. But, does everyone choose to see? We are looking at the Gospel lesson for this Sunday, Mark 10:46-52, which is the […]
Not willfully blind, just blind
We are all pretty certain that we see what is in front of us. It is a certainty that stands us in good stead almost all the time. However, there is always a “however” when you are talking about sermons, there are times when we don’t see what is plainly in front of us. The […]